Don Gwinn
Moderator Emeritus
Help. I know nothing about scope rings or mounts.
I was recently entrusted by a friend with a Remington 700 in .308 Win. Dad gave me a pair of the two-piece Weaver bases for it, along with a set of 1-inch Tasco rings.
Now, the Weaver bases installed with no problem. I put one of the Tasco rings on the rear mount, centered over the notch, and placed and tightened the screw. So far so good.
Then I tried to install the front ring. It wouldn't fit on the mount. From either end. I uninstalled the mount and tried it that way. No good. I removed the other ring and tried it on the front. No good. I took the "front" ring and put it on the rear mount. No problem.
So I tried one last time to put the ring on the front mount. In the end I figure, "Aw, hell, Donnie, it's about $10 worth of equipment among all three pieces." So I forced the ring onto the front mount. It went--with some heavy squeezing that would have been easier on a shop press than it was on my right hand--and it was immediately clear that the damn thing was crooked. As in not straight. I would guess the difference between the alignment of the mount and the ring to be several degrees to the right or left depending on your point of view.
To be perfectly honest, I know so little about scopes and rings that it occurred to me that this might be normal or at least acceptable. But it sure doesn't look right at all. I'm a little leery of putting a scope on with those rings, to be honest.
A search for "Tasco scope rings" turned up nothing about scope rings at all--but lots of griping about Tasco scopes.
Can anybody help with this? Anybody want to recommend something better for a reasonable price? I'm not interested in paying more than $25-50 for scope mounts and rings, since I will probably not know the difference. If there is something wrong with this Tasco set, I only want to bother with another set if they're likely to work. If all Tascos are junk. . . .
I've never been a rifle shooter, but I now have a good range to use. 200 yards is as far as I can shoot there, and I figure it's going to take me a long time to master that. I'm more used to 50-yard shots with a 12-guage slug gun.
I was recently entrusted by a friend with a Remington 700 in .308 Win. Dad gave me a pair of the two-piece Weaver bases for it, along with a set of 1-inch Tasco rings.
Now, the Weaver bases installed with no problem. I put one of the Tasco rings on the rear mount, centered over the notch, and placed and tightened the screw. So far so good.
Then I tried to install the front ring. It wouldn't fit on the mount. From either end. I uninstalled the mount and tried it that way. No good. I removed the other ring and tried it on the front. No good. I took the "front" ring and put it on the rear mount. No problem.
So I tried one last time to put the ring on the front mount. In the end I figure, "Aw, hell, Donnie, it's about $10 worth of equipment among all three pieces." So I forced the ring onto the front mount. It went--with some heavy squeezing that would have been easier on a shop press than it was on my right hand--and it was immediately clear that the damn thing was crooked. As in not straight. I would guess the difference between the alignment of the mount and the ring to be several degrees to the right or left depending on your point of view.
To be perfectly honest, I know so little about scopes and rings that it occurred to me that this might be normal or at least acceptable. But it sure doesn't look right at all. I'm a little leery of putting a scope on with those rings, to be honest.
A search for "Tasco scope rings" turned up nothing about scope rings at all--but lots of griping about Tasco scopes.
Can anybody help with this? Anybody want to recommend something better for a reasonable price? I'm not interested in paying more than $25-50 for scope mounts and rings, since I will probably not know the difference. If there is something wrong with this Tasco set, I only want to bother with another set if they're likely to work. If all Tascos are junk. . . .
I've never been a rifle shooter, but I now have a good range to use. 200 yards is as far as I can shoot there, and I figure it's going to take me a long time to master that. I'm more used to 50-yard shots with a 12-guage slug gun.